“Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
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Wallace Stevens was an American Modernist poet. He was born in Reading, Pennsylvania, educated at Harvard and then New York Law School, and spent most of his life working as a lawyer for an insurance company in Connecticut. ([Source][1].) [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_Stevens
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“Thought is an infection. In the case of certain thoughts, it becomes an epidemic.”
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“What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.”
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“The day of the sun is like the day of a king. It is a promenade in the morning, a sitting on the throne at noon, a pageant in the evening.”
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“Intolerance respecting other people's religion is toleration itself in comparison with intolerance respecting other people's art.”
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“How full of trifles everything is! It is only one's thoughts that fill a room with something more than furniture.”
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“I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections, Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird whistling, Or just after.”
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